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Gently Sheared
by Andrew McCaskey
Slashdot Review Podcast
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Microsoft Plugs a Record 26 Security Holes
16 flaws in Microsoft Office and its constituent apps.
Washingtonpost.com’s Security Fix blog,
this is the most number of patches ever released outside of a Windows service pack.
six of today’s updates apply to fully patched Windows XP systems
Group Think
MIT Center for Collective Intelligence
The book”We Are Smarter Than Me” — over 300 individuals have already signed on
Examples of collective intelligence ourselves, to advance technologies and organizational approache
developing theories to explain all these things,
help network professionals and others understand new ways of organizing themselves
Transmeta Sues Intel for Patent Infringement
EEtimes
Claim – Intel infringed upon ten of Transmeta’s patents.
Power management
Improving Open Source Speech Recognition Part 2
Found out that there was a bit more to it
Not too much more
Think about it
Separate files – one per sentence
From Audacity
Good chance to participate.
“VoxForge collects free GPL Transcribed Speech Audio
Acoustic Model, a very large number of audio recordings of speech and their transcriptions ‘compiling’ them into statistical representations of the sounds that make up each word.”
New Apple Feature
‘method and apparatus rendering user accounts portable’, whereby a user account can be stored to an external storage device and moved to another computer.â€
..may be stored alongside general data storage or ‘other functionality’.
User accounts onto an iPod, hard drive or USB keydrive
Browser Share
Internet Explorer, dropped to just 82.10%
Ars Technica no significant innovations in the browser since XP SP2 was released over two years ago
Firefox grew from 10.77% in June to 12.46% while Safari jumped to its highest figure ever, 3.53%.
Firefox 2.0 and IE 7 later this month will change the game?”
{scriptability of Safari} new game
Todd at GNC on Skype ref mem leaks
New Copy Protection to Make Playing DVDs on a PC Difficult
Don’t know what answer is but this is not it
happily erodes the rights of legitimate users, all in the name of securing profits.
new copy-protection software for DVD publishers from a company called ProtectDisc
Not only makes it difficult to rip movies that you’ve purchased but also prevents discs from playing in a Windows PC at all.
Right up there with Write Only Memory- does it well but misses the point.
You would think
Billions of dollars at stake
CES BluRay -vs- HD-DVD
Millions of consumers sitting on their hands
Why not best brains
Protection for artists
Fair Return to producers
Making a killing versus “gently sheared’
Copper fast as fiber
“Boss,” you begin, “about that $18 billion we just spent? Well, turns out it wasn’t strictly necessary…”
Verizon FTTH
consortium of hardware vendors and phone companies led by ECI Telecom Spanish telephone giant Telefonica, in Israel and funded in part with a grant from the Israeli government.
Dynamic Spectrum Management (DSM) The main obstacle for advancement of DSL (“crosstalk”) generated from different DSL lines that share the same telephone cable binder.
current DSL implementations use static spectrum management that is built for a “worst-case” scenario.
each DSL connection to be regulated in real time by the hardware based on measured crosstalk and loads. DSL connections that top out at 100Mbps or more.
It will allow telcos to provide high-bandwidth services cost-effectively by leveraging FTTC (fiber-to-the-curb) topologies rather than replacing all copper wires with fiber-optics until the subscriber premises (fiber-to-the-home)
Australian companies Novalux Arasor
To replace Plasma
Christmas 2007, under recognisable brands like Mitsubishi and Samsung,
The color content is roughly about 30-35 per cent of what the eye can see,” he said. “But for the very first time with a laser TV we’ll be able to see 90 per cent of what the eye
{home drivers – flat on wall 60% women and climbing}
http://www.kottke.org/06/10/google-code-search
“The new Google Code Search isn’t just for hackers sniffing for passwords.
all sorts of dark corners hidden in our code.
And you thought nobody ever read your comments!”
Stupid users
Stupid bosses
I’m outta here countdowns
“Like our code? Come work for us!”
Suspend Disbelief
Xogen has YouTube
Won’t put it up on site
Tap water
Electricity to Oxyhydrogen Gas
Home heating
Like the Serious whitepaper
Dangers of DiHydrous Oxide
Friend in Venture Capital business
Want to believe
Will fund anything green
Best of both worlds
Green + Energy dependency
Back to sheep / investors, gently sheared
Docs and Spreadsheets
Writely and Google Spreadsheet in one location.
IF there was Google Powerpoint I would use daily
As is use outliner part of Impress in Open Office
Family to do lists from office and home
Eudora Open Source
Thunderbird platform
Qualcomm also released its final commercial versions of Eudora—Eudora 7.1 for Windows and Eudora 6.2.4 for Mac OS X.
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